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Fun and Funny Facts about Cats - 12

Cats have the largest eyes of any mammal.

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Cats can get tapeworms from eating fleas. These worms live inside the cat forever, or until they are removed with medication. They reproduce by shedding a link from the end of their long bodies. This link crawls out the cat's anus, and sheds hundreds of eggs. These eggs are injested by flea larvae, and the cycles continues. Humans may get these tapeworms too, but only if they eat infected fleas. Cats with tapeworms should be dewormed by a veterinarian.

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The phenomenon of cats finding their owners in a place where they have never been before is scientifically known as Psi-trailing. Many well-documented stories tell of cats that have walked hundreds, even thousands of miles to find their owners.

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At night a cat can gather into the extra-large corneas and lenses of its eyes more than six times the amount of light than humans can. Seeing far better than humans do at night time and tending to focus best at a distance of eight to twenty feet makes cats excellent night time hunters.

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The heart of a cat beats twice as fast as that of a human heart; about 110 to 140 beats per minute

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Nostradamus, the French Astrologer, 1503-1566, had a cat named Grimalkin.

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The Maine Coon is 4 to 5 times larger than the Singapura, the smallest breed of cat.